Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To wrestle as a member of a tag team.
- intransitive verb To do an activity by taking turns.
- intransitive verb To do (an activity) by taking turns.
- intransitive verb To question or reprimand (someone) by taking turns.
- intransitive verb Slang To have sex with (a person) by taking turns.
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- adjective Performed by two or more
people orgroups workingalternately .
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Examples
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"In sports parlance, this is the equivalent of what you would call a 'tag-team match,'" he said.
Ars Technica Jacqui Cheng 2011
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For a sense of Savage's art and craft, check out the tag-team match from SummerSlam 1989 below, in which he goes head-to-head with Hulk Hogan:
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We're going to bring you all the news from the football world as it happens, thanks to our dishevelled army of hacks attending pressers the length and breadth of the UK, as well as various other information streams to which we have access the news wires, assorted club websites, the local press and whatever male-female tag-team happen to be presenting on Sky Sports News at any given time.
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Suits (new series, premiering June 23 at 10/9c): The legal drama follows an unlikely tag-team: a tough attorney (Gabriel Macht) and his brilliant college dropout apprentice (Patrick J. Adams).
Royal Pains' New Jill, Covert Affairs' Complicated Marriage and More USA Scoop 2011
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They bound on to the stage of this club packed with moshing boys and camera-aiming girls, a two-man tag-team bearing banter, self-deprecating jokes and bounce-able tunes.
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During the BALCO San Francisco grand jury, a tag-team of prosecutors interrogated Barry Bonds in repeated attempts to catch him committing perjury.
Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat Jonathan Littman 2010
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Unlike his tag-team partner in vampiric crime, SCOTT SNYDER does not strike a pose that embodies the macabre.
The 'Riffs Interview: 'American Vampire's' SCOTT SNYDER on vampires, Vertigo & collaborator Stephen King Michael Cavna 2010
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As to the vulnerabilities of our human nature he adds that we are being manipulated by the tag-team of polluters and Ideologues who are trying to deceive us.
Carol Smaldino: An Exercise for the Practice of Freedom Carol Smaldino 2011
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I want to see Licata and McGinn versus Burgess and Conlin in a tag-team cage match.
State Should Close Loophole to Public Disclosure Law « PubliCola 2010
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As to the vulnerabilities of our human nature he adds that we are being manipulated by the tag-team of polluters and Ideologues who are trying to deceive us.
Carol Smaldino: An Exercise for the Practice of Freedom Carol Smaldino 2011
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